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The time has arrived!

Well, sorry Cleveland fans. I HATE this one game WC game. might as well make it a best of 3 thing. I know, they are waiting too long to get series going as it is. But one game. It clearly does give teams hope that would not normally...and I want towns like Cleveland, Pittsburg, , KC to be excited and have something to look forward to in Sept. But one game... Well, the Braves have a really uphill battle trying to best the Dodgers. Clayton Kershaw is the best starter in baseball. So, unless someone gets lucky and pops a homer off him early, it's likely going to be that the braves have to win 3 of 4 to advance, and that's asking a lot. Puig has more than a little Manny in him, so I expect him to have a huge series unless the braves pitchers bounce every pitch. Dan Uggla is off the roster, which kinda sucks cuz he busts his butt out there. He walks a ton, but just can't hit. Hopefully it's wrapped up in his eyes and next year the lasik will have made more of a difference.... meanwhile, the highest paid Braves...ever made the post season roster...and can you blame the braves for wanting such a talent out there? Jayson Stark explains how very bad BJ has been…. “It would make perfect baseball sense if B.J. Upton goes out there this October and hits like .700, with 12 homers, 18 steals and 25 Web Gems — because one of these days, or weeks, or centuries, a guy with this much talent has to do something productive. Right? But so far? Wow. One season into a five-year, $75.25 million contract, all the highest-paid player in Braves history has done is put himself in contention to become the biggest free-agent debacle of all time. I don’t use words like “debacle” lightly, either. But boy, do they apply to a fellow who has (got the Advil handy?) … a .184 batting average, the second-lowest average in the entire sport among players with at least 400 plate appearances (beating out only his own teammate, that .181-hitting Dan Uggla) … a .289 slugging percentage, a lower percentage than — no kidding — Juan Pierre, Adeiny Hechavarria and Ben (Still Homerless in my 1,304-AB Career) Revere … gone 0 for the entire season (0-for-28, 18 strikeouts) with runners on third base … hit .157/.227/.222 against left-handed pitching … a mind-boggling .108 batting average (10-for-93, with 42 strikeouts) with runners in scoring position … gone an even more mind-boggling 4-for-54 (.074), with 27 strikeouts and no homers, with two outs and runners in scoring position … and has hit .106 so far in September, including 1 for his last 36, with 19 whiffs.” http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/9727380/end-season-mlb-awards-honoring-very-best-worst It should be nice and quiet in Tampa during the playoffs...perhaps they will give away free tickets and will come close to filling the stadium So, with James Loney hitting .299 for the Rays, and BJ Upton hitting in the .180s for the braves, can we finally agree that the NL is clearly the better league?

Always loved that routine! My Dad had some of their LPs and I swear it was even slower on that LP(But, that was in the 70's and to my pre teen ears and mind, it may have seemed longer) there was a very funny Carson clip with Bob as a bird expert , showing photos of some very rare bird, photographed in the desert, that you can't see at all, but that seems to have been deleted awhile back...too bad. But this clip, of the winner of the most beautiful face contest, it's pretty good!

Tim Kurkjian mentioned the fact yesterday that Pirates last had a winning season in 1992. In 1992, Derek Jeter was in Rookie ball. Andrew McCutchen was 6 years old, and Bryce Harper wasn't even born(well, turns out he was, but after the 1992 seaon ended). Also the Yankees have had 22 losing seasons in their 111 year history....

some say yes, others say WTF????

Well, supposedly, they are spending on the minor league side, and have some very good arms right now...from mlbtraderumors.com Also from Galloway's piece, he notes that the Rangers rate four Astros starting pitchers as "double-plus prospects" but a Rangers source wonders if the young starters' development is being harmed by Houston's league-worst bullpen. “The owner down there [Jim Crane] needs to get off his wallet and spend some money for some veteran bullpen guys next season,” the Rangers source said. “Those kid starters have a future, but they are being beaten up mentally by pitching well and never getting a win out of it.” Houston manager Bo Porter recently said that the Astros will look to add relief pitching help this winter. http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2013/08/al-west-links-mariners-trout-young.html

Well, AAJ forum is still down...odd. Hadn't signed in there in years. Perhaps forums will become cool down the road . Records aren't what people under 30 grew up on, same thing with forums. Someday in the near future, hipsters will overload the servers posting thousands of deep and insightful posts on jazz!

ESPN has to be the absolutely the worst, when it comes to videos popping up...and automatically playing another clip, after another 15 second ad. Heck, I even saw a pop up ad on a 15 second ad before a video. Thank goodness you can at least mute the videos...

Oh definitely. I picked the Nats to win the division. I thought they would win a 100 games this season. It was definitely a WS or bust season for them. You have to wonder if last year was their best shot. You have to wonder if they regret shutting down Strasberg. Sometimes, when you have a shot you have to go for it. I think I(and others) have mentioned this before, but they should have had him start the season a month or so later than everyone else last year. You just never know when the stars will align for a perfect playoff run. Never know what injuries will occur. I too thought the Nats were a LOCK to win the east, and had a good shot at the W.S. The braves were dragging their heels while the Phils and Nats got really good, young, fairly cheap, CF'ers , and didn't have to give up an arm and a leg. And unlike the Braves, aren't hampered by the worst tv deal in baseball(and for another 20 years to boot) so they can spend like crazy. Braves waited then signed B.J. Upton to a long term deal that they will regret, when they dont' have the moola to re-sign Brian McCann. And how do you get rid of the .188 hitting B.J. without paying another team 75% + of his contract? and with his bro on the team? Meanwhile, the braves are running away and hiding from everyone. Without their most consistent starter, Tim Hudson for the last 2 months of the year. Without a clear number 1 starter. With a CF'er hitting .188., their 2nd baseman hitting .186 (and who's eyesight was so bad before getting lasik, he was having trouble seeing the ball coming at him on the infield) with a right fielder (Jason Heyward) hitting .227 with 21 RBI's before the all-star break. SS is hitting .241. What else, oh yeah, losing arguably the 2 best lefty relievers in the game to Tommy John surgery early in the year.. Losing jack of all trades Ramiro Pena to season ending surgery. Losing another backup 2nd baseman(Tyler Pastornicky) to season ending surgery. Does that sound like a playoff bound team? Thank God for toss in Chris Johnson, who came over from the Diamondbacks with Justin Upton. Evan Gattis is somehow at or near the top of the list of offensive numbers for rookies in spite of being mainly a guy off the bench. and being on the DL. Freddie Freeman can make a pretty strong argument for MVP, 81 RBI's (while being on the DL at one point) and great defense at 1st. Except for Craig Kimbrel, a bullpen of no names doing a great job, and a rotation of 26 and unders doing better than anyone could expect. I wish the playoffs started now, with Justin and Heyward on fire, and the rotation hitting on all cylinders, I would like our chances with anyone. But, it's August, and while we beat up teams like the Cards, it was when they hit a bump in the road. The Dodgers...they scare me. Those starters can shut anyone down. Who knows what will happen come October, but I sure couldn't have imagined in a million years the braves having a 14 1/2 game lead in August. That's what makes baseball so great, you just can't truly predict how the season will play out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdLASQAJ3Yw

Funny, they thought Heyward wasn't really a CF, so they signed BJ Upton... http://wapc.mlb.com/play/?content_id=29041345&topic_id=8878972

Thanks Blue Train...got the video from someone else on facebook, was working at one point, then for some reason, ESPN moved the link elsewhere...wonder why..

When you think of all the excuses we make for ourselves for why we can't do things...remember this guy. http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=9494941

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-0711-sharknado-need-we-say-more-20130711,0,1772285.story

What I said 6 years ago, still goes!

Ark building weather....all it does is Rain in and around Atlanta....in 20 years of living here, this is by far the rainiest year ever. I think it hasn't rained here 2 out of the last 14 days. Thundering now...sure wish we could ship some of this rain out west....

Did I mention....loaded? 25 years? http://www.ibtimes.com/christie-dawn-harris-oklahoma-woman-who-hid-loaded-gun-her-vagina-sentenced-25-years-prison-mugshot#

I had the original set that I got cheap at Media Play when they were going out of business, but had to sell a few years later when I needed the money(and it was going for quite a bit at the time) I think one reviewer acted like this recent set was remastered , but I sure couldn't find any info saying that it was.....

Season two.... If you had told me even 5 years ago how much I would like a Western like this, I would have laughed in your face! Laughed I say! Don't know what my thoughts were exactly about this, and other TV westerns in the 50's except that I didn't really have any...meh....well, took a chance on this show via netflix (Think you can only watch via DVD, they dropped streaming awhile back for it) after being very pleasantly surprised by the early half hour gunsmoke (someone made a good point that it was almost a noir western early on, in storyline, if not always appearance ) Didn't know how "nice" Paladin was, at least to people that didn't try to kill him...even then, he will often give them a 2nd chance. Richard Boone seems very unappreciated these days...Gene Roddenberry wrote 2 dozen episodes, and Andrew V. McLaglen(victor's still alive and well son) directed roughly half of the episodes. They can do most anything with his character, and often do....amazing the consistency of a show like this, how few even just mediocre shows were made when you realize they had to crank out 39 episodes in a year! And so often they filmed away from the studios...couldn't have been easy either . It was funny, after James Gandolfini died, I heard on Brian Williams say on NBC, he was in a staggering 86 episodes over 6 seasons...and I thought, what would he think about Richard Boone being in 226 episodes in 6 seasons???

You're welcome I grabbed one the other day, and the price has come down a few cents since then...this is a newer edition, not the larger set that came out in the early 2000's Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia - 1933-1944 (10 CDs)

Funny, I have only eaten at 5 guys once, so guess I need to try it again, but thought they were pricey for what seemed to me a bigger, less tasty Steak n Shake

Why not donate it to a library, or libraries? If you call it a precious collection, you do care... Can't believe it would be that hard to find someone that would want at least some of it...weird...so many jazz fans here...perhaps people should contact folks like you to either pay for, or haul away the LPs down the road, at least you would know the collection was going to a good home...(Perhaps a thread called, when I die?) as for the broadcasts, have you thought of uploading them(if legal, wink, wink, nudge, nudge) to youtube, etc? Might find someone hearing whatever it is you have, might want to take it off your hands down the road too....